SPLIT

splits text by delimiter into multiple cells · from google sheets · no excel equivalent · sheets: not yet compared

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SPLIT(text, delimiter, [split_by_each], [remove_empty_text])

returns: text

argumentrequired
text required
delimiter required
split_by_each optional
remove_empty_text optional · defaults to 1

examples

formula and result, taken from the engine's own test suite — every result below is asserted in CI, not written by hand.

fx =SPLIT("a,b,c", ",") a
A
1 10
fx =SPLIT(A1, " ") 10

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